Good morning! Grace to you and peace. (Yesterday on the blog: The Endearing Conceit of Young Men) Humility on the Opinion Front This is a really good call for humility when it comes to opinions (and other things). Tithing in Financially Tight Times “Your bank balance hovers near zero. Your job feels like it’s hanging…
I wonder if you have ever thought about the kind of courage—but also the kind of conceit—it takes for a young man to ask a father for the hand of his daughter. De Witt Talmage once considered this in a discourse on marriage and, frankly, his thoughts are hilarious. I trust you’ll enjoy reading about…
May God bless and keep you as you worship him and serve him this weekend. Today’s Kindle deals include one of my favorite Kevin DeYoung books, along with the usual batch of Saturday classics. (Yesterday on the blog: New and Notable Christian Books for April 2021) Keeping the Faith Christian Smith spent two decades studying…
This week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by Radius International They are giving away a conference package that includes: 2 tickets, a Radius pullover, and 4 books. The winner will receive two free tickets to the Radius Missiology Conference being held June 23-24, 2021, at Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, MN. This event will be live…
I’ll be honest with you: April 2021 was probably not the most significant month for new and notable releases of Christian books. I did not have as many as usual show up in my mailbox and did not have to work as hard as usual to narrow down the list. However, we were still blessed…
May the Lord bless you and keep you today. If you’re looking for something to read, Westminster Books has a deal on a selection of new and noteworthy spring releases. I dug up just a couple Kindle deals. Identity Politics, Opium of the People Carl Trueman begins a very interesting article this way: “Identity politics…
Good morning! The God of peace be with you today. Today’s Kindle deals include some special deals from Crossway. (Yesterday on the blog: Whatever Is Not Christ) Were the New Testament Authors Aware of Their Own Authority? “Sometimes, even in the academic world, things get said so many times that people assume they are true.…
It is said of Michelangelo that when he was carving his best-known masterpiece he began with a block of marble and simply removed whatever was not David. This is the task of any sculptor—to begin with raw material and to work with it until nothing is left but the subject itself. Under the hand of…
Grace and peace to you today. If you’re interested in a journaling Bible, then you should check out this week’s sale at Westminster Books. Today’s Kindle deals include the popular Risen Motherhood. Out of My Hands and Into His This is a poignant reflection from Madelyn Canada. “I miss him. I kept thinking time would…
Good morning. Grace to you today. Today’s Kindle deals include a few books that I think you’ll find worth a quick look. (Also, you’ll find quite a number of board games on sale there today, including the fun Exit games.) (Yesterday on the blog: Being the Answer to Prayer) What Are Angels Doing Today? You…
God invites us to pray, directs us to pray, commands us to pray. He even assumes we will pray, for when his followers ask him for instruction, he prefaces his teaching with “when you pray,” not “if you pray.” The Bible assures us we have been given bold, confident access to God through our faith…
Good morning! The Lord be with you and bless you today. If We Don’t Love, We Won’t Last Jon Bloom: “In recent years, I have watched churches I love dearly fracture, and even break apart. And in the cases I have in mind, the breaks weren’t over doctrinal disagreements or gross immorality, but over offenses…
I have mentioned a number of times that one key element of worship at Grace Fellowship Church is the Call to Worship. This call sometimes involves reading a passage of scripture, but other times combines several texts into a responsive or back-and-forth format. Here’s an example that might bless you this morning as you prepare…
May the Lord bless and keep you as you serve and worship him this weekend. My thanks goes to Missional Wear for sponsoring the blog this week. Today’s Kindle deals include some newer books along with the usual Saturday classics. (Yesterday on the blog: Faithful Leaders) 5 Marks of Harmful Megachurch Culture Jeremy Howard points…
This week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by Missional Wear They are giving away a bundle that includes a pair of statue busts, an art print, journal, coaster set and bookmarks. Gentlemen, Mother’s Day is very quickly approaching and it’s time to get your plan in place. You know that just getting her another set…
It can be discouraging to see Christian leaders sometimes falter and sometimes fall. We feel residual shame when yet another well-known pastor is caught in scandal, when yet another Christian celebrity succumbs to a web of his own weaving. Yet we need to be careful that we do not make the extent of the problem…
The Lord be with you and the Lord bless you today. There is, once again, a nice list of Kindle deals for anyone who is looking for something good to read. Choosing the Public Scripture Readings : Three Approaches Gradon Schaub offers three different approaches to one of those elements of worship that, in so…
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you today. Today’s Kindle deals include quite a number of good books. (Yesterday on the blog: Simon, Would You Still Have Passed That Way?) How Hyperbole Dulls Our Spiritual Discernment This is a very good article from Thomas Schreiner. “We live in an age with a…
Simon, would you still have passed that way? Would you still have passed that way if you had known how you would be mistreated? Would you still have ventured into the city if you had known that you would be forced to carry another man’s burden? Would you still have entered that gate and strolled…
Grace and peace to you today! When Martyn Lloyd-Jones Confronted a Pastor Who Loved Controversy and Denunciation This is an interesting description of a key meeting between Martyn Lloyd-Jones and T.T. Shields. Beware the Deadly Weed of Cynicism Darryl Dash: “When I was in my thirties, I became cynical. I think it began with reading…